Deception is utilized by a variety of intelligent systems ranging from insects to human beings. It has been
argued that the use of deception is an indicator of theory of mind [2] and of social intelligence [4]. We
use ...

In this paper, the effects of adaptive robotic behavior via Learning Momentum in the context of a robotic team are studied. Learning momentum is a variation on parametric adjustment methods that has previously been ...

In this paper, we report on the integration challenges of the various component
technologies developed towards the establishment of a framework for deploying
an adaptive system of heterogeneous robots for urban surveillance. ...

More and more, robots are expected to interact with humans in a social, easily understandable manner, which presupposes effective use of robot affect. This chapter provides a
brief overview of
research advances into this ...

Facial masking in early stage Parkinson’s disease
leads to a well-documented deterioration (stigmatization) in the
patient-caregiver relationship. This research described in this paper is concerned with preserving dignity ...

This paper presents an algorithm for analyzing social situations within a robot. We contribute a method
that allows the robot to use information about the situation to select interactive behaviors. This work is based ...

This paper presents a method for a mobile robot to
construct and localize relative to a “cognitive map”, where
the cognitive map is assumed to be a representational
structure that encodes both spatial and behavioral
...

A novel approach for the sharing of knowledge between widely heterogeneous robotic agents is presented,
drawing upon Gardenfors Conceptual Spaces approach [4]. The target microrobotic platforms considered are
computationally, ...

Sound source localization on a mobile robot can be
a difficult task due to a variety of problems inherent to a real
environment, including robot ego-noise, echoes, and the transient
nature of ambient noise. As a result, ...

Auditory perspective taking is imagining being in another’s place,
and predicting what they are able to hear and how it will affect
their general comprehension. From this knowledge of another’s
auditory perspective, a ...

This paper reviews key concepts of the Autonomous Robot Architecture {AuRA}. Its structure, strengths, and roots in biology are presented. AuRA is a hybrid deliberative/reactive robotic architecture that has been developed ...

Before autonomous robotics can be used for dangerous or critical missions, performance guarantees should be made available. This
paper overviews a software system for the verification of behavior-based controllers in ...

New reactive behaviors that implement formations in multi-robot teams are presented and evaluated.
The formation behaviors are integrated with other navigational behaviors to enable a robotic team to reach navigational ...

This paper describes an implementation of a behavior-based mobile manipulator capable of autonomously transferring a sample from one drum to a second in unstructured environments. A major contribution of the project was ...

This paper introduces a novel approach to representing
and learning tool affordances by a robot. The tool
representation described here uses a behavior-based approach
to ground the tool affordances in the behavioral ...

Formal models of animal sensorimotor behavior can provide effective methods
for generating robotic intelligence. In this article we describe how schema-theoretic
models of the praying mantis derived from behavioral and ...

This research details the application of non-verbal
communication display behaviors to an autonomous
humanoid robot, including the use of proxemics,
which to date has been seldom explored in the field
of human-robot ...

No longer does the idea of robot emotions seem far-fetched; not their experiential side, of course, but rather those manifestations of emotion, especially in robots created in human likeness, which would be beneficial for ...

A common behavior in animals or human beings is deception. We
focus on deceptive behavior in robotics because the appropriate use of
deception is beneficial in several domains ranging from the military to a more
everyday ...